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Who is paying for your wedding...

posted 2 years ago in Money
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poll: whos forking out the dough?
Dear Old Dad and Mom : (68 votes)

24 %

Me and the FI : (111 votes)

40 %

daddy and mummy and us! : (98 votes)

35 %

another party : (3 votes)

1 %

280 votes

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81.

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1,418 posts

Bumble bee

Mrs. Louboutin July 2010

My parents are paying and I don't have a budget. I'm very lucky!

2 years ago

82.

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1,258 posts

Bumble bee

MrsK2be November 15, 2008 Ohio

My parents very generously paid for our wedding. We paid for our honeymoon. They gave us the money for our wedding 2 months after we got engaged. Honestly I think the best gift they gave us was the note that was with the check - it read something like: "This is for your wedding. We are so excited for you both. Please know that however you choose to spend this and whatever plans you make, we will support. There are absolutely no strings attached to this check!"

So, even though they paid for our wedding, we got complete and total planning freedom and all the cash up front (so no "submitting bills" etc.). This also made it really easy to set our budget because we knew exactly how much we had to work with and anything that fell outside our budget we just chipped in if we wanted to...

2 years ago

83.

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382 posts

Helper bee

katrinab July 11, 2009 Boston, MA

We paid for the wedding, but my mom did end up offering to sponsor my wedding dress. I don't even remember how we established our budget but it mostly was venue/food and then we cut a lot of corners and did a lot of DIY on everything else.

2 years ago

84.

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677 posts

Busy bee

Violachap November 13, 2010 California, MD (Wedding in Norfolk, VA)

We'll probably be splitting the budget between my parents and us. Still don't have a solid budget amount, but it's looking better than it was!

2 years ago

85.

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397 posts

Helper bee

PirateJenn June 21, 2011 Denver

we are totally paying for the wedding 100%! it sucks, but oh well. i set up a budget of 3k for us, after we won this nearly free reception. i upgraded things, such as adding a cake, a ceremony location, and a couple of other things(they had certain packages, so i just went to the next package, the starter package was almost free (it wasonly a 750 deposit) ) and that was 2036, so i figure i could hopefully come up with 1k for the photography, flowers, and anything else i needed. seems to be going decent so far. we're technically married, but i wanted a wedding. we went to the dmv and got our marriage license for 10 bucks in jeans, tshirts, no rings, no vows, i need a little more than that. but now some of the family is like your married why do you need a wedding (which makes me livid, and they know where they can go if they don't like the idea of us having a wedding, lol).

and we will be sticking to that budget as we have 2 kids, not much money at all, and i'm paying for the wedding by cleaning houses, lol.

2 years ago

86.

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979 posts

Busy bee

tammyt112 May 29, 2010

The FI is paying 95% of it! Im Vietnamese and in my culture the groom pays for EVERYTHING, he is Causasian but he doesnt care about tradition at all and so dont I . My mother is a single mom and has been for a long time so she doesnt have the money for it. I actually love the fact that he is working hard to pay for our nice wedding, it shows alot.. :)

2 years ago

87.

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128 posts

Blushing bee

Sinitsa July 11, 2010 California

My FI is paying for the wedding. My FI worked for a year in Iraq..and he saved enough money for the wedding. Now he is in CHP (California High Way Patrol) Academy and ge gets payed really good there.. So we will have enough money. Oh and my parents are paying for our honeymoon! Whoohoo!

2 years ago